Reason I mention it this morning it because the Landmark Commission's Designation Committee is headed over to the historic Lakewood home this very afternoon, as the commission inches closer toward stamping it an official City of Dallas Landmark. Says 'Preservation Dallas executive director Katherine Seale, who's on the designation committee, today's field trip is part of the regular process -- a way for the committee to "develop the preservation criteria, like the do's and don'ts of what changes they will be able to make and what changes they will not be able to make."

Seale says the Lovvorns -- who actually initiated historic designation proceedings with the Texas Historic Commission in 1999, nine years before sending the THC is demo plans -- have undergone quite the conversion. "The owners have committed themselves to preserving the important parts of the building," she tells Unfair Park. "They're actually researching it and trying to find the original plans and early photographs. They're really working with the committee to protect it." The Lovvorns did not return a message left by Unfair Park Wednesday.

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